Feb 4, 2025 - Politics & Policy

Scoop: Scale AI CEO to meet with lawmakers, administration officials

Alexandr Wang estifies during a House Armed Services Subcommittee (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) — Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang testifies during a 2023 House Armed Services Subcommittee hearing in Washington, D.C. Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Scale AI CEO and founder Alexandr Wang is heading to Washington Tuesday and Wednesday for meetings with lawmakers and Trump administration officials to discuss China's AI threat to America, sources confirmed to Axios.

Why it matters: Wang made global headlines last month when he said DeepSeek, an open-source AI model that was built with barely any capital, showed that China has caught up with the U.S. in AI.

Scale AI provides enterprise AI products for private companies and the government. The company recently took out an ad in The Washington Post that featured an open letter to President Trump saying "America must win the AI War."
Scale AI did not respond to a request for comment.

Zoom in: Wang is in town to discuss AI's contributions to American job growth and how the U.S. can win the AI competition against China.

The big picture: Wang is the latest in a string of CEOs from major tech companies to pay court to the new administration.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was in D.C. last week to unveil new technology to a crowd of lawmakers and administration officials.

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